Shange Tang, ``From Representation to reasoning:  Theorectical  Guarentees and Frontier Systems  in Modern Machine Learning'', 

Princeton University, March, 2026.  

First job:  Open AI

Xiaonan Zhu, “Factor Augmentations and Ranking Inference in Statistical Learning”, 

Princeton University, March  2026. 

First job:  Radix Trading.

Yuheng Zheng, ``Topics on Machine Learning in Finance''

Princeton University,  May, 2025

First job:  Two Sigma

Jikai Hou, ``Large-scale Network and Ranking Analysis and Inference"

Princeton University,  May, 2025

First job:  Morgan Stanley

Yihong Gu, ``Algorithmic Statistical Learning and Causality Pursuit Using Neural Networks''

Princeton University,  May, 2025

First job:  Harvard University (PD)

Cheng Gao, ``Transfer Learning and Optimization Theory for Large-Scale Models'',

Princeton University,  November, 2024

First job:  DWR Holdings, LLC.

Yuling Yan, ``Statistical Learning and Optimal Decision Making under Uncertainty'',

Princeton University, June, 2023.  

First job:  MIT (PD) + University of Wisconsin at Madison

Mengxin Yu, ``High-dimensional Robust Statistics Inference'',

Princeton University, May, 2023.  

First job:  University of Pennsylvania (PD)

Bingyan Wang, ``Statistical analysis on convex and nonconvex methods  for low-rank matrix recoveries",

Princeton University, May, 2023.  First job: D.E. Shaw

First job:  D.E. Shaw

Pierre Bayle, ``Survival analysis in distributed and high-dimensional environments and theory of cross-validation'',

Princeton University, February 2023

First job:  Tower Research.

Igor Silin, "High-dimensional statistics under covariance eigenvalue decay",

Princeton University, September, 2022.

First Job: Two Sigma Investments

Francesca Tang, "Statistical Machine Learning Meets Social Science",
Princeton University, August, 2022.

First Job: Princeton University, Department of Politics

Yongyi Guo, "Computationally and Statistically-efficient Methods in Data Science",
Princeton University, June, 2022.

First Job: University of Wisconsin at Madison

Daniel Gitelman, "Tensor methods for network analysis",
Princeton University, May, 2022.

First Job: Goldman Sachs

Zhuoran Yang, "Topics in the statistical and computational complexities of modern machine learning",
Princeton University, April, 2022.

First Job: Yale University

Lirong Xue, "Big data in financial economics",
Princeton University, July, 2021.

First Job: Jane Street

Yifeng Zhou, "Mean-variance functional estimation for optimal portfolios",
Princeton University, May, 2021.

First Job: Tower Research

Wenyan Gong, "Sparse Estimation for High-Dimensional Statistical Problems",
Princeton University, May, 2020.

First Job: Two Sigma Investments

Cong Ma, "Statistics Meets Nonconvex Optimization: Computational Efficiency and Uncertainty Quantification",
Princeton University, May, 2020.

First Job: University of Chicago

Kaizheng Wang, "Latent Variable Models: Spectral Methods and Non-convex Optimization",
Princeton University, May, 2020.

First Job: Columbia University

Thomas Patrick Pumir, "On the geometric structure of problems in statistics and optimization",
Princeton University, January, 2020.

First Job: Voleon Group

Yiqiao (Joe) Zhong, "Spectral Methods and MLE: A Modern Statistical Perspective",
Princeton University, May, 2019.

First Job: Stanford

Carson Eisenach, "Modern Optimization for Statistics and Learning",
Princeton University, May, 2019.

First Job: Amazon

Koushiki Bose, "Robust Dependence-Adjusted Methods for High Dimensional Data",
Princeton University, May, 2018.

First Job: Prudential Financial

Junwei Lu, " Combinatorial Inference for Large-Scale Data Analysis",
Princeton University, June, 2018.

First Job: Harvard University

Ziwei Zhu, "Distributed and Robust Statistical Learning",
Princeton University, May, 2018.

First Job: University of Cambridge and University of Michigan

Yuyan Wang, "Robust High-Dimensional Regression and Factor Models",
Princeton University, June, 2016.

First Job: Uber

Weichen Wang, "High-dimensional covariance learning",
Princeton University, June, 2016.

First Job: Two Sigma

Alexander Furger, "High-frequency Asset Factor Models: Applications to Covariance Matrix Estimation and Risk Management",
Princeton University, May, 2015.

First Job: Trade Logic Developer at Transmarket Group

Lucy Xia, "Statistical Methods for Complex Datasets",
Princeton University, May, 2015.

First Job: Stanford University, University of Virgina

Jiawei Yao, "Factor Models: Testing and Forecasting",
Princeton University, November, 2014.

First Job: Citadel

Wei Dai, "Statistical Methods in Finance",
Princeton University, May, 2014.

First Job: Dimensional Fund Advisors

Tracy Zheng Ke, "Inference on Large-scale Structures",
Princeton University, May, 2014.

First Job: University of Chicago

Martina Mincheva, "High-Dimensional Covariance Matrix Estimation and Financial Applications",
Princeton University, May, 2014.

First Job: Temple University

Chintan Mehta, "Rank-based Inference for Independent Component Analysis",
Princeton University, May, 2014.

First Job: Yale University

Xiaofeng Shi, "Large Portfolios' Risks and High-Dimensional Factor Models",
Princeton University, May, 2014.

First Job: Temasek Holdings

Ahmet Emre Barut, "Variable selection and prediction in high dimensional problems",
Princeton University, June, 2013.

First Job: George Washington University

Xin Tong, "Learning with asymmetry, high dimension and social networks'',
Princeton University, June, 2012.

First Job: University of Southern California

Weijie Gu, "Estimating False Discovery Proportion Under Covariance Dependence'',
Princeton University, June, 2012.

First Job: Morgan Stanley

Dacheng Xiu, "Essays in Financial Econometrics'',
Princeton University, May, 2011.

First Job: University of Chicago

Lei Qi, "Essays on the estimation of time series models",
Princeton University, May, 2011.

First Position: Hedge Fund

Jelena Bradic, "Sparse estimation and oracle properties of regularized regression with non-polynomial dimensional covariates'',
Princeton University, May, 2011.

First Position: University of California at San Diego

Yang Feng, ``High-dimensional Learning and Nonparametric Modeling'',
Princeton University, May, 2010.

First Position: Columbia University

Ke Yu,``High-frequency data based asset allocation and dynamic covariance matrix modeling'',
Princeton University, May, 2010.

First Position: J.P. Morgan

Ying Lu, ``Advance in Statistics Theory and Methods for Social Sciences'', June, 2009, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

First Position  New York University

Jingjin Zhang, ``Asset Allocation with Gross Exposure Constraints and Factor Selection", Princeton University, May, 2009.

First Position:  Barclay Capital

Yue Niu, "Validation Tests and Estimation of GenewiseVariance for Microarray Data", 
Princeton University, January, 2009.

First Position:  University of Arizona

Clifford Lam, "Wai-Fung (Clifford) Lam, "High-dimensional profile likelihood inference and covariance matrices estimation", 
Princeton University, May, 2008.

First Position: London School of Economics and Political Sci.

Jinchi Lv, "High-dimensional variable selection and covariance matrix estimation", 
Princeton University, May, 2007.

First Position:  University of Southern California

Yingying Fan, "Volatility matrix estimation and high-dimensional classification",
Princeton University, May, 2007.

First Position:  University of Southern California

Jianzhong Lin, "Indirect inference for continuous-time diffusion process with discretely sampled observations",  Chinese University of Hong Kong, August, 2004.

First Position:  Shanghai Jiao-tong University

Tao Huang, "New developments in varying-coefficient partially linear models", University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 2004.

First Position:  University of Virgina

Heng Peng, "Data-analytic modeling for High-dimensional statistical problem", October 2003.

First Position:  Hong Kong Baptist University

Run-Ze Li, "High dimensional modeling via nonconcave penalized likelihood and local likelihood",  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April, 2000.

First Position:  Pennsylvania State University

Chunming Zhang, "Topics in Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test",  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April, 2000.

First Position: University of Wisconsin at Madison

Jin-Ting Zhang, "Smoothed functional data analysis", University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, July, 1999.

First Position: National Singapore University

Jianwei Chen, "Local quasi-likelihood estimation and optimal Bayesian sampling plans for censoring data", Chinese University of Hong Kong,  May, 1999.

First Position: San Diego State Univ.

Wenyang Zhang, "Local polynomial fitting in nonparametric regression", Chinese University of Hong Kong, November, 1998.

First Position:   University of Bath.

Martine King, "Local likelihood and local partial likelihood in hazard regression", University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August, 1997.

First Position:  Abbott Laboratories

Li-shang Huang, "On nonparametric estimation and goodness-of-fit", University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, July, 1995.

First Position: Florida State University

Ming-Yen Cheng, "On boundary effects of smooth curve estimators", University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April, 1994.

First Position: National Taiwan University

Soham Jana (22-24)

First Institution:  University of Notre Dame

Sohom Bhattacharya(22-23)

First Institution: University of Florida

Debarghya Mukherjee (22-23)

First Institution: Boston University

Zhipeng Lou (20-23)

First Institution: University of Pittsburgh

Alexander Giessing (18-21)

First Institution: University of Washington at Seattle

Yang Zhou (19-21)

First Institution: Fudan University

Yi Chen (18-19)

First Institution: University of California at Berkeley and NYU

Bai Jiang (17-19)

First Institution: ByteDance Silicon Valley Research Lab

Krishna Balasubramanian (17-18)

First Institution: University of California at Davis

Haolei Weng (17-18)

First Institution: Michigan State University

Qiang Sun (15-17)

First Institution: University of Toronto

Wenxin Zhou (15-17)

First Institution: University of California at San Diego

Donggyu Kim (16-17)

First Institution: Korean Institute of Technology

Yuan Ke (15-17)

First Institution: Pennsylvania State University

Xiaolin Yang (15-17)

First Institution: Amazon Inc.

Dong Wang (16-17)

First Institution: Hong Kong University

Heather Battey (14-16)

First Institution: Imperial College

Quefeng Li (13-15)

First Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dan Christina Wang (12-15)

First Institution: Columbia University

Zhao Chen (12-14)

First Institution: Pennsylvania State University

Lingzhou Xue (11-13)

First Institution: Pennsylvania State University

Runlong Tang (11-13)

First Institution: Virginia Institute of Technology

Yuan Liao (10-12)

First Institution: University of Maryland

Michael Innerman (11-12)

First Institution: Lehigh University

Yunbei Ma (10-12)

First Institution: Southwest University of Economics and Finance

Anneleen Verhasselt (12-12)

First Institution: Universiteit Antwerpen

Xu Han (09-11)

First Institution: Temple University

Ning Hao (09-10)

First Institution: University of Arizona

Junshao Guo (09-10)

First Institution: Institute of Applied Mathematics

Rui Song (08-09)

First Institution: Colorado State University

Yingying Li (08-09)

First Institution: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Weiwei Wang (08-09)

First Position: University of Texas

Qingfeng Liu (07-08)

First Institution: Otaru University.

Yichao Wu (06-08)

First Institution: NC State University

Jiancheng Jiang (06-07)

First Institution: University of North Carolina, Charlott

Heng Peng (03-06)

First Institution: Hong Kong Baptist University

Yong Zhou (01-01, 02-04)

First Institution: Institute of Applied Mathematics

Chong-Qi Zhang (02-03)

First Institution: Guangzhou University

Huazhen Lin (02-03)

First Institution: Southwest University of Economics and Finance

Juan Gu (02-03)

First Institution: Guanfa Securities